Once new laws are established, they may still be able to apply for ILR - but, as the “requirements of the new category are to be determined”, thousands fear they will be pushed out.

Meanwhile, no transitional arrangements have been agreed and Turkish businesspeople have told HuffPost UK of their anguish at being made to “feel like just a number” to the Home Office.

The plight of Turkish immigrants may be raised with Theresa May by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he visits the UK on Tuesday for talks with Prime Minister, but these four women are part of a group crowdfunding for a legal challenge to the tribunal.

Leni Candan

LnieLeni Candan with her partner Anna, whom she hopes to marry in the future

Leni Candan came to the UK as a young, gay student hoping to escape an increasingly homophobic atmosphere in Turkey, she told HuffPost.

The 28-year-old has been running ILC Digital Communications, which provides specialist communications for charities, for four years after having graduating with a masters in gender studies from Goldsmiths in 2011.

She had planned to propose to her long-term girlfriend, Anna, but feels like the rug has been pulled from under her feet.

“The environment in Turkey was getting more and more oppressive and it was around the time I came out,” she said, thinking back to 2010.

“I didn’t want to live in Turkey as a gay woman. We don’t really have any anti-LGBT laws but the societal attitudes are still very homophobic.

“There is not a threat to my physical safety but it is still a very unpleasant environment.

“It is much worse now, with pride marches not even allowed to happen.

I was very angry because I have followed all of the rules. They have not followed the rules.Leni Candan

“That’s why I wanted to move here, because I thought I would have a much fuller life as a young person just coming out.”

Under the Ankara Agreement rules, visa-holders were initially granted a one-year stay. They could then apply for a three-year extension, at the end of which they were to be eligible for settlement.

After some initial struggles, Candan’s business is now profitable.

“I applied for the Ankara path because the process was set out very clearly,” she said.

“When I first found out that had changed, I was very shocked but I thought surely it won’t affect us.

“We are contributing to the system.

“This is the kind of thing that would happen in Turkey, where the rule of law isn’t really that powerful, but not here in the UK.

#AmberRudd’s gone but #WindrushScandal is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Home Office’s unfair & cruel immigration policies.

Just recently, they revoked the right to settlement in my visa category with no notice, weeks before I was due to apply.

So the #HostileEnvironment is apparently now called the ‘compliant environment’ - as someone who complied with every requirement of my visa and still had my right to settlement taken away from me literally overnight, I’m not buying this rebranding. #SajidJavid

“Around 2011, I felt like I did not have my safety in my hands in Turkey so I decided to live abroad,” said Suner.

She originally came to the UK while still working for a Turkish-owned publishing company, but when work dried up she set up her own content management firm and applied for a business visa.

The Home Office deemed Suner’s original business plan viable and she was granted temporary leave to remain, and she received a letter setting out the path to residency.

When I see what has happened to the Windrush generation, I feel hopeless, because if the Government is treating their own citizens this way, what chance do I have?”Zeynep Nil Suner

“The Home Office said that you will be eligible, so I felt I had a very concrete plan,” she said. “There are thousands of people who have done this.

“I will try my best to fight this because I have invested everything that I have, emotionally, effort-wise and financially to start a life here.

“I also love being here. I have a life here. I have friends and I have a business that I have been running for four years.”

“I feel let down by the country that I love.

“When I see what has happened to the Windrush generation, I feel hopeless, because if the Government is treating their own citizens this way, what chance do I have?”

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A Home Office spokesperson said: “We are planning to create a new route to settlement for Turkish nationals currently in the UK with limited leave to remain under the Ankara Agreement. “Turkish nationals can continue to extend their leave under existing Ankara agreement arrangements.”